Design & Creativity

Principle for UX Design (2019)

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Learn how to create dynamic interactive prototypes for smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers with Principle for Mac, the UX design tool.Principle for Mac is a Macintosh-based UX prototyping tool designed to bring your design ideas to life. In this course, join instructor Tom Green as he shows how to create interactive prototypes for smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers with Principle. The techniques go beyond static wireframes or blueprints; with Principle, your prototypes become more dynamic, with motion and interactivity. Along the way, learn how to import assets, crop and mask layers, and use the Principle timeline and drivers. The final chapter of the course includes examples of real-world prototyping projects, including a preloader animation, a card animation, a video player, and an Apple Watch UI.Introducing PrincipleWhat is Principle?1. Getting Started with PrincipleReview of the Principle interfaceMore of the Principle interfaceCreating and adding artboardsAdding content to an artboardAdding and formatting textCreate your first animationTest and share your work2. Using the Principle TimelineUnderstanding the timelineAdding keyframes and durationsUsing the easing featureMotion pathsCreate a tabbed interfaceCreate scrollable content3. Using the Principle DriversOverview of Driver ChannelConstrain driversInteractive driversPagingDrivers and paging4. Managing Content in PrincipleWhat Principle doesn't doCreate assets in PhotoshopCreate assets in SketchImport Sketch artboardsImport Figma artboardsCropping and masking5. Practical Principle ProjectsDrag and dropCreate reusable UI componentsCreate a preloader animationCard animationCreate a slide-in menuCreate a video playerCreate a video scrub controlControl the audio volume of a videoCreate an Apple Watch UIConclusionNext steps

UX Insights Weekly

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Gain insights into a variety of user experience (UX) techniques and tools.Do you need to deepen your understanding of user experience (UX) design for a new job or project? In this weekly series, instructor Chris Nodder digs into a variety of UX techniques and tools. Chris breaks down key practices such as card sorts, wireframes, usability testing, and desirability studies. He also explores specialized research techniques that can help you glean even more powerful insights into what your users want and need. In each self-contained video, he shares practical examples that help you grasp how these techniques work in the real world.

Learning Type Design

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Gain a foundational understanding of typography, and learn how to design your first typeface.If you want to become a good type designer, diving into the study of type is beneficial. It's important to know what makes a good face, how details are used to define a family, and how to edit your designs so that they look well balanced and consistent, not off-kilter. In this course, join Charles Nix as he sets you on the right path with best practices and details on how to achieve a cohesive collection of letters. He helps you understand exactly what makes a typeface great, explores tools, methods, and materials, shows how to draw the basic glyphs, and explains how to produce a functioning font.

Proto.io for UX Design

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Get up to speed with Proto.io, one of the leading prototyping platforms for UX and design teams. Learn how to import artwork, work with screens and components, add animation, and more.Get up to speed with Proto.io, one of the leading prototyping platforms for UX and design teams, and start building and sharing interactive prototypes. This course shows how to make prototypes for a variety of devices, ranging from smartphones to tablets to desktops. Learn how to create screens and import artboards from Photoshop and Sketch. See how to add interactivity, photo, video, audio, and animation. Additionally, learn about sending your prototypes out for review, to provide testers and users with the opportunity to add comments to your projects.

Creative Inspirations: New Deal Studios, Visual Effects

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Come along for a peek behind the magician's curtain at one of Hollywood's top visual effects houses, New Deal Studios.

Introduction to User Experience

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The user experience is defined as the result of the internal states (eg expectations, predispositions) of a user, the characteristics of a system (eg complexity, usability) and the context of use of the interaction between the user and the system (eg in organization, in private).Organizations value innovative and well-designed user experiences for their customers and employees, whether they are using their websites, mobile applications, self-service kiosks in store, or various internal interfaces. The practice of UX design uses the user-centered approach and covers 3 main activities: UX research (getting to know the users and their contexts), activities surrounding ideation (such as "design thinking" and participatory design) and prototyping. This course teaches methods, techniques and digital tools specific to UX in today's business context.A UX professional is able to intervene in the design process of a digital product or service in order to ensure a user-centered approach. This allows the organization to respond to the expectations of its users. A UX professional mobilizes a range of interview and observation methodologies until the development of a prototyped interface.UXPA defines user experience professionals as specialists involved in research, design and evaluation of products and services. Conceptually, this notion of user experience emerges from the human-centered design approach in the field of human machine interaction and human factors in industrial engineering.Research corresponds to the activity of learning about user interfaces and the context in which they will be used.Evaluation corresponds to user observation when using these interfaces, as much before, during and after the design and development of the product.Design corresponds to the standards and principles of design of digital products or services offering optimal user experiences.Overall objective of the MOOC:Discuss what the user experience is in the context of business practice

DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering

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Explore the basics of site reliability engineering for DevOps. Learn SRE techniques for release, change and incident management, self-service automation, and more.Site reliability engineering (SRE) is an emerging paradigm in DevOps. The biggest names in tech—companies like Google, Netflix, Microsoft, and LinkedIn—all use SRE. In fact, industry wide, "site reliability engineer" is replacing "DevOps engineer" in job posts. Simply put, SRE is software engineering applied to operations—for the cloud native era. This course introduces the basics of site reliability engineering, including how SRE fits into DevOps and how it can be integrated into your unique business environment. Instructors Ernest Mueller and James Wickett cover the major areas of expertise, including release engineering, change management, incident management and retrospectives, self-service automation, troubleshooting, performance, and deliberate adversity. Learn how to define reliability through SLAs and SLOs, handle crisis, design distributed systems, and scale your systems and your team. Plus, explore time and project management strategies that bring humanity back to the SRE's job.

LP/w Design Studio, Interior and Graphic Design

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Learn how husband-and-wife team Libby and Patrick Castro use their different disciplines—architecture and graphic design—to drive designs for clients at LP/w.

User Experience (UX) for Non-Designers

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Learn the principles of user experience design—from the perspective of a non-designer who needs to work with UX teams, studios, and projects.User experience (UX) design is more than just pushing pixels and adding interactivity. It's a people-centric practice that involves many stakeholders—not all of them professional designers. This course teaches the principles of user experience design from the perspective of a non-designer who needs to work with UX teams, studios, and projects. Instructor Tom Green explains the four-stage process of UX design, starting with user research—the stage where you build out personas, user scenarios, and user flows. Next, learn about UX conceptualization, where initial ideas are translated into sketches, wireframes, and paper prototypes. Tom then tackles the actual design process. In this phase, you can see how functional prototypes are generated, complete with imagery, copy, and basic interactivity. Plus, learn about the importance of testing your designs at multiple points in the process and incorporating feedback before handoff to developers.

Creativity and Learning: A Conversation with Lynda Barry

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An inspiring conversation about creativity and learning with cartoonist Lynda Barry.

Creative Inspirations: Ze Frank, Comedic Digital Savant

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Take an inspiring look at the Internet and media experience through the eyes and mind of Ze Frank, one of the most enigmatic, creative, and funny people working in digital media.

Advance Your Skills in UX Design

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Today's UX designers need to stay on top of cutting-edge software and know how to apply industry best practices to their workflow. Explore prototyping, mobile design considerations, validation techniques, and more so you can sharpen and expand your UX design skillset and enhance your portfolio.Explore the latest design and prototyping tools.Learn best practices for mobile experience design.Create a fresh portfolio of your UX design work.

Improve Your Creativity Skills

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Every person in a creative field has been stuck in a rut at some point in time. Start this learning path with techniques to bust the rut. Also learn how to improve your creative brainstorming, generate ideas that resonate, and understand the five-step creative process beyond idea generation.Discover ways to get out of a creative rut. Identify successful brainstorming techniques. Define the five-step creative process.

Interaction Design: Projects and Platforms

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Take a deeper dive into interaction design by learning about the key platforms, processes, and project types you'll encounter as a working UX designer.An interaction designer's mission is the same on every project: create an experience that users will love. And while the applications and platforms you work on may vary greatly from client to client, user-centered design techniques can help you accomplish this central goal on nearly any kind of project. In this course, Diane Cronenwett takes a deeper dive into interaction design, exploring each of the key platforms, processes, and project types you'll encounter as a working UX designer. Diane shares general techniques and tools for evaluating user needs and designing for different experience levels. She then goes over common challenges you'll face when designing consumer and enterprise experiences, as well as modern interfaces such as wearables.

Get Ahead in the Construction Trades

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Prepare yourself for a lucrative career and learn valuable skills that bridge the physical and digital worlds. This path prepares you to embark on a career in the construction trades—and to set yourself apart in this competitive industry.Discover the pathways that lead to a career in construction.Explore the types of work in the construction trades.Identify opportunities for future career advancement.